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Recent patterns of post-conflict aid: Did donors help sustain peace?
Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016
its sectoral composition. The allocation of post-conflict aid tends to be needs-based by favoring particularly poor … to settlement. Furthermore, the sustainability of conflict resolution appears to be unrelated to the amount and … composition of post-conflict aid. These findings, though based on a limited number of post-conflict episodes, underscore concerns …
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Government ideology in donor and recipient countries: Does political proximity matter for the effectiveness of aid?
Dreher, Axel; Minasyan, Anna; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2013
Political proximity between donor and recipient governments may impair the effectiveness of aid by encouraging favoritism. By contrast, political misalignment between donor and recipient governments may render aid less effective by adding to transaction costs and giving rise to incentive...
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Sectoral aid priorities: Are donors really doing their best to achieve the millennium development goals?
Thiele, Rainer; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - 2006
We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries...
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Does aid for education educate children? Evidence from panel data
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2006
This paper empirically analyzes the impact of aid on education for about 100 countries over the period 1970-2005. We estimate a system of equations to test whether and to what extent the impact of sector-specific aid on educational attainment depends on (i) the extent to which aid adds to...
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Are NGOs the better donors? A case study of aid allocation for Sweden
Dreher, Axel; Mölders, Florian; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2007
This paper analyzes whether and to what extent non-governmental organizations (NGOs) outperform official donors by allocating aid in a way that renders effective poverty alleviation more likely. We employ Probit and Tobit models and make use of an exceptionally detailed database that allows an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273121
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Aid and growth accelerations: An alternative approach to assess the effectiveness of aid
Dovern, Jonas; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2006
It continues to be heavily disputed whether foreign aid promotes economic growth in developing countries. In most cross-country regressions, aid is considered effective only if it shifts recipient countries to a significantly higher and sustainable growth path. We apply an alternative approach...
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Donors' openness to immigration and the effectiveness of foreign aid
Minasyan, Anna; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2015
We argue that donors could improve the effectiveness of foreign aid by pursuing complementary and coherent non-aid policies. In particular, we hypothesize that aid from donors that are open to immigration has stronger growth effects than aid from closed donors. We estimate the aid-growth nexus...
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Does private aid follow the flag? An empirical analysis of humanitarian assistance
Fuchs, Andreas; Öhler, Hannes - 2019
Little is known about foreign aid provided by private donors. This paper contributes to closing this research gap by comparing the allocation of private humanitarian aid to that of official humanitarian aid awarded to 140 recipient countries over the 2000-2016 period. We construct a new database...
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Is favoritism a threat to Chinese aid effectiveness? A subnational analysis of Chinese development projects
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2019
Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
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Democracy and aid donorship
Fuchs, Andreas; Müller, Angelika - 2018
Almost half of the world's states provide bilateral development assistance. While previous research takes the set of donor countries as exogenous, this article is the first to explore the determinants of aid donorship. We hypothesize that democratic institutions reduce poor countries' likelihood...
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